1 Corinthians 9:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?

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  • Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony! if they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
  • Rom 6:19 : 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
  • 1 Cor 7:40 : 40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 14:34 : 34 let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.
  • 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
  • 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 Therefore he who rejects doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

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